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Being a heart-throb is silly Rupert Penry-Jones stars as Captain Frederick Wentworth in Persuasion on STV on Sunday. Here he reveals to Ellie Genower what it was like playing Jane Austen's romantic hero and how he finds time for romance in real life

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From: Press and Journal, The Aberdeen (UK)
Date: 20070329
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Rupert Penry-Jones stars as Captain Frederick Wentworth in Persuasion on STV on Sunday. Here he reveals to Ellie Genower what it was like playing Jane Austen's romantic hero and how he finds time for romance in real life

Many of us will remember swooning over Colin Firth's brooding Mr Darcy in BBC1's 1995 series of Pride and Prejudice.

Now, 10 years on, another romantic Jane Austen hero is waiting in the wings. Spooks heart-throb Rupert Penry-Jones will be strutting his stuff as the dashing Captain Frederick Wentworth in this week's one-off Austen drama, Persuasion. But Rupert reckons he has ...

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